Coming at this from an outsider these days... I tend to ask myself what Colwyn Bay ever was. Sure first time round in Wales for me, my father was the manager of Abbey National when it first opened on Penryryn Road. Our doctors and vets were on the way in. Later in life and only once or twice I seem to remember was it Dixies, the disco? I've drunk in places including the Imp as sort of one offs and worked at Supra on Groes Road (used to make track rod ends, etc.... as did Quints in Mochdre...)
I guess a question I ask is what is/was/(/perpaps could be) Colwyn Bay? Llandudno was perhaps clearly sort of defined as an old Victorian resort but I'm not convinced that works for CB.
Where's the pier sit in with all this? I don't know but my niece and nephiew who are still resident in the three towns are a reckoned it should survive as part of the town,